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105 polluted by the pestilential and serpentine hissings of blasphemy and sedition, that I should add—to confirm their religion. It seems indeed to have. been strangely imagined, that there is something in the nature of our profession, or of the studies in which we are necessarily engaged, that has a tendency to. encourage scepticism and to favour infidelity—-We repel the unfounded suspicion—We contend there is, a manifest absurdity in supposing, that engagements which make us habitually conversant with all the vicissitudes of life, and pursuits, which are perpetually bringing before us the most exquisite proofs of the infinite power of the Al- �